Two mermaids The first one comes from the Dutch Pedersen association; the one on the right is by Willma Saavedra (Billy), 2002, a friend of Ricardo Eid, and it features in his book of bicycle writing (see below), here is his interpretation of the drawing: “I don’t understand Billy’s drawing either. This is it: she was ill, weak, laying in bed; I read her one of my essays, where I play with the idea that bicycles are female, they are she-things — she began sketching, and that was what she did. Billy is a sociologist and a painter, and many of her works feature androginous screaming heads like the one emerging from the front wheel. The maid’s open hand is kind of preventing something that’s about to happen to her right at once — and I guess she won’t be able to prevent it, she’ll have to endure it. But, the point is, the woman is in the process of transubstantiating into the cycle, two beings are becoming one.”